Lit Books Comics A/V One Sentence or Less -- ANDOR (SEASON 1)

Nick Rostu...he dies...or not.

 

The noir mystery book which completely forgets the mystery until the very end.

 

Fortunately there are no vampires (sparkly or otherwise) in this book, just a warning for the Jedi Order that arrives about 10 years too late.

 

Xizor fights a Jedi over two decades before he's shocked to see Luke deflect his blaster bolts.

 

Shadow Hunter's plucky protagonist's bland son hides from the law and meets a series of more popular and interesting EU alumni.

 

A Lannik always replays his deaths.

 

The sucky fourth book in a trilogy I liked.

 

Cynical_Ben takes home what may or may not be his first win. Right now I'm too sleep deprived to remember stuff.

Also, if my count is correct, only one kitten down (an argument could be made for two, but I'm just not in the mood to slaughter cute furry creatures today). You've all done well.

 

Aurra Sing and Captain Typho die but not for realsies; they both show up again later.

 

Aurra Sing is melted about six decades before she gets tased by a little girl.

 

This is your brain. This is your brain on Bota.
Bota. Not even once.

 

Who needs lightsabers when you can just blast the laser out of the air?

 

The main characters in what is theoretically a riff on hard-boiled detective fiction are handed what is theoretically a mystery, which they theoretically investigate; in practice, this means that they ignore the mystery the whole book while they run around doing other things entirely, until someone walks in at the end and tells them the solution so they can all go home without ever having to worry about any of this detective stuff.

 

It is my first win. I've actually beaten Havac at something now.

Anyway, the book. Apparently, all you need to create a transparent metal in the GFFA is a lot of sand and approximately 70 kilos of bald bounty huntress to help it cure.

 

You know you want to get with the Twi'lek, so trust your feelings, knucklehead!

 

art by Otis Frampton

 

In which we learn Anakin may not have been the only reason Padme covered her cameras that night.

 

Sounds like a hellova great block in Courscant with back to back to back strip clubs!

 

Head north on Alsakan Avenue, turn right onto Byss Boulevard then left at Duro Drive, keep going past Lorrd Lane, Ryloth Road and Wayland Way, then you'll be at the Street of Shadows.

 

Turns out Todd the Jedi did it.

 

With the introduction of Kajin Savaros and the Inquisitors to the main plotline of the story, the trilogy goes fully from "Noir story" to "Jedi vs. Sith 2.0."

 

A guy gets disintegrated.

 

Don't let the continuity errors distract you from the utter blandness of the story.

 

Jax takes a impossibly overpowered kid under his wing while Typho decides that the he can totally take on Darth Vader in a fight.